All Intra-Right slapfights are throat-pluggingly gay, rake-steppingly retarded, and Corporate-Accounts-Payable-Nina-Speaking-Just-A-Moment annoying. There is nothing Christian reactionaries, post-Englightment technophiles, and race-essentialists actually have to fight about. Wanna know how come I know? Because none of us are in a position to impose our will on our actual enemies. You know, the Globalist Juggaloes and Puritan shitlibs? Remember them? The people who take 1984 as a how-to manual? The people trying to troll the Russian President into kicking off a Third World War? The people with their actual fingers in our actual eyes? There is no difference we have with each other that amounts to a hill of beans compared to our war with the bugmen who are actively ripping our civilization apart brick-by-brick, and then throwing said bricks through storefronts. And yes, we do have differences, and at some point we will have to make deals. We’re not at that stage yet. We’re not even at the hand-wave-the-differences-away stage. All we have to do is Not Be Dicks to each other. All we have to do is not pick gay, retarded, and annoying slapfights under the guise of Policy Pronouncements. We have no Policies, fucksticks. We’re a bunch of malcontents on the Internet, throwing ideas at the wall. Stop getting butthurt that people vary from your worldview. You’re not winning anything. And if you’re wondering if I’m talking about you, then I’m probably talking about you.
So, what do? There are many ideas. Lots of them probably won’t work. We won’t know which ones until we try doing them. So giving shit a try, or even just thinking outside the box, can only be a good thing. I don’t know if Walt Bismarck’s plan to Castrate to Left will actually peel off sufficient left-leaning constituencies to do us any good. I don’t know that any plan can save the Republic, which is to say, prevent the Oligarchs from accelerating to a revolutionary crossroads. I’m not even sure that I care all that much. What can’t go on forever, won’t. But it absolutely can not hurt to switch it up, try new ideas, run shit up a flagpole and see if anybody salutes it. We can’t do the same old Boomer Fusionist civnat claptrap anymore, so fuck it, let’s start new movements, organize for new priorities reflecting the swirl. It will be more truthful, even if it fails, and it will seed the next wave. Incrementalism is a workable strategy, and it will help us deal with our differences.
This is a time of discovery, of digging, of sharing, of overturning. Of laughing at the bullshit and creating parallel systems of bullshit. Of supporting each other substacks and vibing each other’s streams and accepting that no one has all the answers. Get your ego out of the way and find a place you can contribute from. Or if you’re gonna put your ego center-stage and rub it in everyone’s cat belly, your ego better have rhino skin, because it will get scratched. And above all, don’t ever forget the Prime Law of the Internet: This shit is all voluntary. It doesn’t acually exist.
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There is a similar phenomenon with Online Christianity: People spend much of their time arguing over and engaging in polemics and apologetics over particular dogmatic and theological disputes within Christianity. (Which is not to say that Christians should be arguing with non-Christians; just that there is a common modern tendency to hyper-focus on minute differences.) In part, it comes down to the significantly greater difficultly of building and being positive, compared to destroying and being negative.
I increasingly think that the most effective and instructive people on "the Right", are those, like Owen Benjamin, who are simply building up a small, real world community of like-minded people, and opting out of the system and the various debates of all sorts. Winning will look like actually building something worthwhile, and being a living example to others; not owning someone on a rhetorical point.